MASSEURS AND MASSEUSES.
(To tho Editor "N.Z. Times."!
Sir,—My attention lias been called to a corresnondcuco in your columns as to the traiiung qualifications of masseurs and masseuses. Some years ago the Australasian Massage Association was established by the medical profession in Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney in conjunction with the leading masseurs and masseuses throughout tho Commonwealth in order to secure for tho public that ♦drill and reliability in massage which are now recognised as of very great value in many medical and surgical cases. The result was tho present association, with the two years’ curriculum detailed by the lion, secretary of the Wellington branch. Tliis curriculum, just ns in medicine and '.nursing, took the education out of private ami interested hands, obtained tho cooperation of tho universities and hospitals and placed massage upon a footing equal to any other in the world. Your readers may —I am sure —accept the fact that the Beans of tho Vacuities of Medicine, tho professors of Anatomy and Physiology in tho Universities of Adelaide. Melbourne and Sydney, ami tho lending medical men of the- leading hospitals all join in the responsibility of originating and carrying out its requirements ns sufficient proof of its sufficiency ami efficiency. The Dominion of New Zealand was unable to come in at the time, of inception, because it had not the necessary medical school and local difficulties stood in tho way of outsiders selecting any one city ns headquarters. Hence its members accepted the temporary position of branches of our Australasian Association.
The time, however, has evidently come when New Zealand should form i\\i as-
reciation of its own. Vv'e of Australasia wish you every .success in such an undertaking. and are sure that you will formulate a course of study and training a* least equal to our own, and one which wo will be glad to reciprocally recognise and affiliate with.—X am, etc..
J \V SPRINOTIIORPE. .M.A., ALE., President Australasian Alascago Association. (Ad Hus street. Aid bourne.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8180, 23 July 1912, Page 5
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